Ecology and biology of uapaca kirkiana, strychnos cocculoides and sclerocarya birreal in Southern Africa

Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utillization and Commercialization

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 322-340

  Chirwa, Paxie W ^a   Akinnifesi, Festus K ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

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